Tongue-support.



Patented July 25, I899.

(Application filed May 10, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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XVATTY WATSON GALEY HURT, OF COIN, IOWA.

TONGUE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,721, dated July 25,1899.

Application filed May 10, 1899- Serial No. 716,192. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WATTY WATSON GALEY HURT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Goin, in the county of Page and State of Iowa,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tongue-Supports forReaping-Machines; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

lily invention relates to improvements in tongue-supports, andparticularly to a tonguesupport for'reaping-machines and otheragricultural and analogous machines where the weight is inclined to reston the animals used in propelling the machine when the machine is not inmotion and particularly when the driver is not in his place on themachine.

The objects and advantages of this invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the device as it would appearfrom the drivers seat on the machine. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same,showing a part in section. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the pawl forsecuring the device in the position desired.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

A and B indicate the two upright posts, adapted to receive the tongue ofthe machine between them.

F represents the tongue of a machine.

0 represents a cross-piece uniting A and B atthe top.

D represents a cross-piece uniting A and B at the bottom and extendingout beyond A cured to N and to the tongue F by the bolt P, as shown. Thecasting H is forked, and between the forks is secured a pulley I.

L is a pawl pivoted in the forks of the casting N and secured by bolt 0.The inside face of A is provided with a rack or teeth M, in which thepawl L engages.

K is a pulley secured in the center and on the top of D.

Z represents a cord or wire secured in the hole T, extending down to thepulley K and thence up to the pulley I, thence along the tongue to thedrivers seat. The bolt 0 passes through the hole U in the pawl L and isso placed that the point of the pawl is always in contact with the rackM when the cord Z is loose. Guides Vare secured on each side of thetongue F, so that the device will move up or down, and the device willthus be retained in its proper place on the tongue. It will now be seenthat if the driver should pull on the cord Z the device will slide upbetween the guides V and the pulleys K and I will be brought neartogether, and in this position the device can be carried while themachine is in motion. Should it be desired to stop the machine for atime, the driver will release the cord Z and allow the piece D to reston the ground, and when'the weight of the driver is removed from themachine the pawl L will engage in the rack M, and the weight of thetongue will thus rest on the device, and thus relieve the animalsattached to the machine from the weight that would otherwise betransferred to them.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with asupporting-frame and a rack or teeth alongthe inside face of one of itsside pieces, of a pawl pivoted between said side pieces and adapted toengage in the rack, of two or more pulleys, one secured to the underside of the tongue of a machine the other secured near the bottom of thedevice, a cord attached to the pawl and extending over the pulleys andalong the tongue of the machine, all as described and for the purposesset forth.

2. In a tongue-support for reaping-machines, of two parallel bars A, andB, framed to the cross-pieces O, and D, of the castings N and H, securedto the under side of the tongue of the machine, of a. cord Z, andpulleys K and I, for raising and lowering the device, and a pawl L, forsecuring the device in 16 the position desired, all as described and forthe purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WATTY WATSON GALEY HURT; Witnesses:

T. H. BALDWIN,- Jo. H. FOWLER.

